[mythtvnz] Free to Air BBC World on TV One - best way to 'inject' bbc.co.uk guide data after Freeview EPG update?

[Matt Poff]

Great stuff gents. Thanks. I'll start a-dabbling with things and see if 
I can get this working.

Wade Maxfield wrote:
>> Steve Hodge wrote:
>>> On 7/2/07, *Matt Poff* <matt.poff@headfirst.co.nz 
>>> <mailto:matt.poff@headfirst.co.nz>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I'm pulling down the Freeview programming guide but it doesn't 
>>> contain
>>>     distinguish individual programming info for the late night BBC 
>>> World
>>>     programming on TV One. Ideally I'd like to post-process the data
>>>     after
>>>     an electronic update to pull an XML feed from bbc.co.uk
>>>     <http://bbc.co.uk> and inject this.
>>>
>>>
>>> I haven't looked at it, but is it the same as BBC World on Sky? If 
>>> so you could grab the data for the relevant time period from Sky's 
>>> EIT data.
>> Not sure either as I don't have Sky. Can I  pick up Sky's EIT without 
>> a decoder?
>
>
> I'm assuming you've got a DVB-S card.  8)  You could just run a 
> grab_dvb_xml script using a different transponder.  Sample scripts 
> should be on the nz wiki.
>
>
>
>>>     Problem is I'm not aware of any hooks in myth which would enable 
>>> this,
>>>     or even whether the BBC transmission is live-to-air or timeshifted.
>>>
>>>
>>> mythfilldatabase. You don't have to use Myth to grab the EIT data.
>>>
>> Right so have some external bash script or similar on a cron job 
>> grabbing data from the various sources and writing to the database? I 
>> was hoping to avoid over-riding the EIT gathering Myth does, just 
>> trigger a post-process operation which 'fills in the gaps' for the 
>> Beeb stuff.
>
>
> Well, if you check out the Sky TV guide on their site, and compare 
> that to what you can actually see on TV One  one evening, and if it 
> looks about right then:
> Use your dvb-s card, a grab_dvb script, and mythfilldatabase, and 
> massage the program table afterwards.
> If you only define BBC world (1026.dvb.guide on my system) then when 
> you import, all the other channels data will be ignored. Then do a 
> REPLACE/SELECT from BBC World to TV One for the missing time period.
> Call mythbackend --resched at the end of it all and you should be set.
>
> I'm doing something similar to insert extra sets of One & TV2 for my 
> DVB-S input, and One, TV2, & TV3 for my other PVR card.
>
>  - Wade
>
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